Monopoly At Pogo.Com

October 1, 2008 at 9:42 pm · Comments (5)
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Eric and I have been playing a bit of monopoly lately. It’s funny because when I say we’ve been playing monopoly, people probably picture us sitting on the floor or at the table around a big board game throwing dice and ho humming over plastic houses and what not. But we don’t play monopoly that way. We play on pogo.com He sits in his room at his computer, and I sit in my room on mine and we play monopoly together. Weird? I don’t know nor care. It’s fun. He has a good time and so do I. The only thing I can’t get over is how he got so good at the game so fast. He went from not really knowing how to play it to beating me. He knows how to swindle a ton of cash out of his opponents and then he con them into giving properties to him for bottom dollar. It’s crazy how good he is at this game. Chris and I play it sometimes too, and Chris almost always beats me no matter what. So either I suck or they are just both really good. Check out this screen shot of the last game Eric and I played. It’s really sad.

Commenters: Chic Blonde Geek, Chris, Chris, Cris, Julie

He Loves To Read

October 1, 2008 at 4:34 pm · Comments (1)
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I’ve said this time and time again, and I’m sticking with it. Reading is the key to learning, increasing your comprehension, and expanding your mind all while allowing your imagination to flourish. Yeah, I sound like a big nerd. Well, if I’m a nerd, then I’m proud to be a nerd.

Anyway, I bring this up again because my son told me the other day that he has the highest reading level in his grade. They did an accelerated readers test and although his level is extremely high, they will only allow him to check out books from the library that are up to 5.7. (7th month of 5th grade) This is because of the subject matter, and the fact that he’s only 8, but I’m glad he’s at least being challenged a little bit.

Right now he’s reading Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone. It’s one of the HP books he hasn’t read yet. I’m not quite ready for him to read the newest one, because there is some subject matter that I don’t really think he needs to be reading just yet. But this one I don’t mind. He seems to be thoroughly enjoying it though, and enjoying being in his accelerated readers group. Yesterday when he wasn’t looking I snuck around the corner and snapped this picture of him reading.

Commenters: Julie

When They Are Little..

September 29, 2008 at 11:05 pm · Comments (1)
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Remember when your baby was really a baby? Or when he or she was just learning to talk? I used to love listening to Eric talk, because his cute little voice was so adorable. I loved the way he pronounced certain words. When he was around 18 months he actually started saying stuff like “hi” and “no”, but he would whisper like he was unsure of himself. I remember when he was about 2, he came in the room and shouted his name at me, except he called himself “Ewok” cause he just couldn’t pronounce it quite right. The nickname Ewok stuck with him and I still call him that sometimes even though he’s not a little baby anymore. Another thing he would say that I still sometimes say is “tweepy”, which in his vocabulary meant “sleepy”. Too cute. Here’s a picture of him as a toddler just for the cuteness reference.

I was reminded of all of this when my parents sent him home with a cassette tape of recordings they had made when he was little and would leave messages on their answering machine. They didn’t have Caller ID back then so they would let their machine pick up and wait for the person to leave a message. Eric would always leave the cutest messages, just cause he had that little baby voice. I still catch him listening to that cassette sometimes, and I think I’ve mentioned it here before. I want to transfer it to a cd so that I can upload some of them as mp3 or wav files. They are just too adorable not to.

What cute things did your kids say when they were toddlers?

Commenters: Julie